What to Bring to a Career Fair
Short list. If it doesn't help you talk to someone, leave it at home.
Bring about ten printed resumes, your resume QR code saved on your phone, a pen and small notepad, a charged phone, a water bottle, and a folder or bag you can hold in one hand.
The essentials
- Ten or so printed resumes, kept flat.
- Your resume QR code, saved in your photos.
- A pen and a small notepad for names.
- A charged phone and a battery pack.
- A bag or folder you can carry with one hand.
Nice to have
- A water bottle.
- Breath mints.
- A printed list of your target employers and their table numbers.
- Shoes you have already walked in for two hours.
Leave at home
- A laptop, unless you were told to bring one.
- A binder of every project you've done.
- Fifty resumes you'll carry all day and hand out ten of.
The one thing people forget
A way to share your resume when your paper runs out. Set your QR code up before you go and that stops being a problem.
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